PCL1 Nashville Sounds

Sounds Return Favor, Hammer Isotopes 11-3

Published on May 28, 2008 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Nashville Sounds News Release


ALBUQUERQUE - The Nashville Sounds cranked out 11 runs on 14 hits to hang an 11-3 loss on Albuquerque on Wednesday night at Isotopes Park, evening the series at one game apiece.

The final score was reversed from Tuesday's series opener, which saw the Isotopes net an 11-3 victory.

The Sounds took an early 1-0 lead when Callix Crabbe (3-for-5) led off the contest with a single to extend his hit streak to eight straight games and scored two batters later on a Laynce Nix RBI single.

Albuquerque responded with a pair of runs in the bottom half of the frame against Derrick Turnbow, who got the start for the Sounds. After walking the bases loaded with one out, Turnbow surrendered a two-run double to Tagg Bozied, which gave the Isotopes a 2-1 lead.

In his 1 2/3 inning stint, Turnbow allowed two runs on one hit while walking six batters and fanning one. He threw only 21 of his 52 pitches for strikes.

Richie Gardner (4-1), the scheduled Nashville starter, took over following Turnbow's departure and turned in his finest outing of the year, allowing five hits over 5 1/3 scoreless innings while striking out five batters to earn the win.

Nashville knotted the score at 2-2 in the second when Vinny Rottino delivered a bases-loaded, one-out RBI single to plate Crabbe after Albuquerque elected to intentionally walk the red-hot Brad Nelson in front of him. The Sounds missed a chance to do further damage in the frame as Isotopes starter Dallas Trahern retired the next two batters in order.

The Sounds grabbed a 5-2 lead in the fifth with a two-out rally against Trahern. Nelson (2-for-3) ripped a ground-rule double to left-center and scored the go-ahead run when Rottino followed with an RBI single to center. J.R. Hopf followed with his first home run of the season, a two-run shot to left, to increase the visitors' advantage to three.

Nashville made it an 10-2 contest in the top of the eighth with yet another two-out rally, putting the game out of reach with five runs in the frame against Jesus Delgado.

After the first two batters were retired, Brendan Katin and Ozzie Chavez reached on back-to-back singles before Adam Heether, hitting for Gardner, slugged the Sounds' first pinch-hit homer of the year, a three-run shot to left. The roundtripper was Heether's fifth of the campaign.

The rally didn't stop there as Crabbe singled, his second hit of the night, and Tony Gwynn drew a walk before Nix cleared the bases with a two-run double to right that chased Delgado.

Zach Jackson followed Gardner to the hill for Nashville and allowed one run over two innings in his first outing since being optioned back to the club from Milwaukee.

Crabbe wrapped up the evening's scoring in the top of the ninth when his two-out RBI single off Marcus Gwyn plated Hopf to bring the score to its final 11-3.

Trahern (0-5) remained winless on the year after he surrendered five runs on seven hits while striking out six batters in his five frames of action.

The teams continue the series with another 8:05 p.m. CT meeting on Thursday. Left-hander Sam Narron (2-0, 3.46), a winner in his first two starts with the Sounds, will man the bump for Nashville to face Albuquerque right-hander Bobby Keppel (6-3, 5.58).

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